# Program management in July-August 2026

DevFeed: [Program management in July-August 2026](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/program-management-in-july-august-2026-15106.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/31/program-management-2026-jul-aug/>)

Author: Nurzhan Saken

Published: 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Inside Rust Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/inside-rust-blog.md>)

Topics: [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [funding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/funding.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [project](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

The Rust project's July-August 2026 program-management update reports seven newly opened goals, one completed goal, two discontinued goals, and changes in goal funding. It also covers project updates, repository and Zulip channel renaming, improved goal-owner reporting, configurable reminder frequency, and automatic Zulip topic creation for proposed goals.

## Source excerpt

It's been fun since the last update. Tomáš was away for a month, and I had to get my wisdom teeth pulled right after he left. Despite everything, a lot has happened! Project Goals Since the previous update, we've opened seven more goals: Contracts: primitive ownership assertions Process-Safe Rustup Toolchain Operations End-to-End Executable Rust Specification f16b Primitive Type Polymorphic code generation experiment C interop: Complex<T> Allocators 1.0 There's now a roadmap for Binary size reduction, which includes async future and statemachine optimization goals, build-std, and future possibilities that aren't goals yet. One goal was completed (Stabilize Cargo's linting system), and two were discontinued (Experimental language specification and Continue Experimentation with Pin Ergonomics). Several goals have received partial funding (Incremental Systems Rethought, Native async fn dynamic dispatch in traits, and Cargo cross workspace cache), and some are now fully funded (C interop: f80, f128, and c_longdouble, C interop: Complex<T>, and Async statemachine optimization). Don't forget to add your goal to the funding table if it needs funding (see template)! Some goal owners and contributors have been writing about their work beyond the regular goal updates. Here are some of the places to check out: Monthly updates by Hexcat Rust Maintainer Monthly Report: August 2026 by Gen Li Status Update - July 2026 by the BorrowSanitizer team Field Projection Designs by Benno Lossin Four levels of in-place initialization by Yoshua Wuyts Optimizing the new trait solver by Jana Dönszelmann Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation by teor A Vision for a Rust Formal Specification by Nadrieril Infrastructure The Goals repository has been renamed to rust-lang/goals from the verbose rust-lang/rust-project-goals, and we've renamed the Zulip channels to #goals, #goals/proposed, and #goals/meta. The website now lives at goals.rust-lang.org; the old links should redirect there